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There are flashes of emotion that light up the stage at Motel from time to time through Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Theatre BSMT’s production of Oscar winner Alan Ball’s bumpy dramedy that opened Wednesday. When bridesmaid Georgeanne (Helen Knight) bursts into fellow bridesmaid Meredith’s (Kas Nixon) Knoxville hotel room, clutching a half-drunk bottle of champagne, bawling about a run-in with an old flame, for example. Another powerful moment happens when Frances (Jamie Matchullis) — the Christian bridesmaid in a room full of drinking, smoking, sexually active, spiritually adrift women — unleashes the full brunt of her moral superiority complex on them. A third comes when Meredith reveals a devastating piece of information about the man every straight woman in the room had the hots for, and at that moment Five Women Wearing the Same Dress ignites.

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